RiverCityTider

Huge success? Right now? With Persian Gulf oil bottled up and all the highly enriched uranium still in Iran? Regime still in control.

This isn't skeet shooting. You cant win on points. Things have to be better at the end than the beginning.

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As far as closing the Strait, it's fricking open! And will remain open. Until the time Iran is capable of closing it, stfu!

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Huh

Mr. President,

Our blockade is designed to stop the exportation of Iranian oil. Their closure is to block our allies oil.

Also, it's nice that our oil companies are making money, but the Strait does affect gas prices in America.

Thank you for you're consideration.

Well that just show your lack of understanding AI and how it works.

You dont ever use AI for anything? To flesh out ideas or summarize discussions or anything?

You sould be concerned by your inability to address topics substantively instead of fixating on AI.

Why don't you address the post? What are you disputing?

It addresses the idea of regime change. Look at pictures of Dresden and Tokyo and tell me dropping bombs causes regime change.

Ground troops bring down regimes.

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There won’t ever be any deal. You can’t deal with these fanatics

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They are crazy and predictable. Trump is a great negotiator but normal techniques don't work with these fools.

Prediction. There will be no deal this week or the terms will be shockingly bad for America.

I have studied this. In detail. I 'm not happy about it. This will not be good for me either.

I am a patriot, not a denocrat.

Iran commits suicide and murder's the world's economy.

The United States is enforcing a naval blockade on Iran. American warships are stopping Iranian oil tankers from leaving port or moving through the Strait of Hormuz. Because of this blockade, Iran is almost completely unable to export its oil.

Iran produces about 3.1 million barrels of oil every day. It uses roughly 2 million barrels inside the country. That leaves roughly 1.1 million barrels per day that normally gets sold abroad. With the blockade in place, those extra barrels have nowhere to go. They are being stored in tanks on land and in floating tankers offshore. Those tanks are filling up fast. In the next 4 to 8 weeks, Iran will run out of storage space.

What happens when the tanks are full?

Iran will be forced to shut down a large part of its oil production. It has no choice — there is literally nowhere left to put the extra oil.

Shutting down wells is not like turning off a faucet. In Iran’s old oil fields, stopping production causes permanent underground damage: Water rushes into the rock and traps oil so it can never be pumped out again. Thick waxy stuff clog the underground formations. Pressure drops and never fully recovers.

The result: Iran would permanently lose 500,000 barrels per day of future production. That is16% of everything it produces today. In plain money terms, that is a permanent loss of $15 billion per year — forever. For a country that depends on oil for two-thirds of its government budget, this is devastating. It would guarantee a long, deep, generational economic depression inside Iran.

Sounds Good, right?

No. Because they won't surrender.
They will take out as much of the Persian Gulf oil fields as possible.

That means worldwide recession.
It means 6 or 7 bucks a gallon.

AND, when we leave, they still control the straight.

Really what it means is

We lose our influence with the Arabs forever. Why? Because we cannot guarantee a secure straight.

We lose the petro dollar.

We lose the midterms and the election.

The democrats pack the court and grant statehood to Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia.

All because we started a war that is unwinnable.

Back in the 60s, there was a bombing campaign called "Rolling Thunder", designed to make North Vietnam quit. We dropped more bombs on them than all the bombs dropped in WW2. They never quit.

In ww2, we leveled Germany and Japan. Their people never revolted.

Here we go again.

Its like the Hells Angels or the Mongols.

As it stands, there is no one left to surrender.

There are like three governments.